My reasons ... (Score 1)

My reason: Microsoft is evil --- taking for
granted that Microsoft's business and software
!= OSS regarding its'openness to software code
and its' philosophy about how to deal with a
community.

One example as to why Microsoft's business
practices are reprehensible.

Anyone ever use real-time stock based applications
i.e. real-time quotes, charts?

Before Microsoft was banned, by court of law, from
distributing JAVA, all online stock brokers
used the Microsoft version of JAVA. Well
apparently this version broke SUN's JAVA and
therefore you had to use Microsoft's OS if you
wanted to use these real-time applications.
Forget Linux, Unix, Mac etc...

Correct me if I am wrong, but one of the benefits
of JAVA was its platform independent
properties. Now Microsoft found a way to make
JAVA platform DEPENDENT and therefore
destroying its main feature. In my humble
opinion, this is truly arrogant and completely
uncalled for even in a competitive business
environment.

So whatever I can do that has a detrimental effect
on Microsoft's monopoly, I will. I would not,
however, encourage someone to use software
that is broken as a replacement to
applications they already use.

rcr